industrial production in, 4, 182
isolationism in, 36, 38, 41, 83, 94
Korean War and remilitarization of, 246–47
lend-lease program and, 189–90
military interventions by, xxx, 29–30, 209
military strength of, 115
neutrality in World War I of, 5–7
as oil supplier, 4, 38–39, 83, 100, 189
peacetime European military alliance of, 220, 222
Pearl Harbor attack and, 82, 98–100, 100, 101, 106, 131, 150–52
possible Soviet nuclear war with, 273, 298, 415
rightward drift in, 399
sexual attitudes in, 16–18
social justice index of, 555–56
space program of, 277
Spanish-American war volunteers from, 84
trade deficit of, 392
world economy dominated by, 38
in World War II, 98–129
United States Information Agency, 272
United States Rubber Company, 350
Unocal, 488–90
uranium, 133, 134, 143, 161, 203, 410, 478, 519, 535, 593
Urey, Harold, 160, 223
Uruguay, 378, 604
USAID, 345, 484, 487
U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, 214
U.S. Conference of Mayors, 591–92
U.S. Information Agency, 285, 350
Utrik, 270–71
Uzbekistan, 544
Vance, Cyrus, 403, 404, 406, 407, 414–15, 418–19, 419
Vandenberg, Arthur, 65, 69–70, 75, 77, 94, 206
Vandenberg, Hoyt, 241–42
Vandenburg Air Force Base, 308–9
Vanderlip, Frank A., 54, 73–74
Van Zandt, James, 64
venereal disease, 16–17, 17
Venezuela, 38–39, 40, 391, 457, 603, 604
Vera Cruz, 2, 3
Vienna, 23, 80
J. F. Kennedy–Khrushchev summit in, 295–97, 297
Viet Cong, 329, 330, 367, 369
Viet Minh, 267–68
Vietnam, North, 250, 315, 327, 328, 329, 334, 335, 339, 340, 358, 360, 362, 366, 367, 370, 382, 384, 386–87, 390, 392–94, 404
Vietnam, South, 268–69, 294, 305, 306, 327, 328, 330, 333, 338, 358, 360, 361, 367, 370, 386–87, 392–94, 404
Vietnam, Vietnam War, 32, 33, 208, 238, 240, 266–70, 290, 296, 304–5, 348, 374, 380, 384–86, 392, 402, 434, 436, 456, 481, 523, 570, 576, 577–78, 606, 612
antiwar movement and, 335, 336, 338, 340–41, 341, 357, 364, 369–70, 371, 384–85
Cambodia invaded by, 389, 467
Carter on, 401, 403–4, 416
chemical warfare in, 306, 330–32, 331, 440
combat avoided by later war enthusiasts, 523–24
death toll in, 387
defense cooperation with U.S. by, 607
end of war in, 387, 392–94, 395
J. F. Kennedy’s plan to pull out of, 314–16, 323, 326–27
Johnson and, 326–35, 338–41, 343, 346, 353–54, 356, 358
My Lai massacre in, 367–70, 369
Nixon and, 358, 360–66, 368, 370, 379, 382, 384–89, 394, 404
Paris peace talks and, 359, 387, 394
Rolling Thunder in, 329
U.S. withdrawal from, 382, 387, 392
Vietnam syndrome, 434, 480, 481
Vietnam Veterans of America, 395
Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, 395
Villaraigosa, Antonio, 591–92
Virginia, forced sterilizations in, 80–81
Volcker, Paul, 403, 553–54
von Braun, Wernher, 215, 277
Voting Rights Act, 383
wage and price controls, 383, 401
Waiting for the Barbarians (Coetzee), xiii
Walker, William H., 22–23
Wallace, George, 356
Wallace, Henry A., xi, 63, 90–93, 101, 112, 117, 119, 121, 128, 134, 180, 193, 202, 217, 318, 377, 447, 550
as anticolonialist, 138, 180, 194, 204
antinuclear position of, 184–88, 194, 196, 199–204
Century of the Common Man and, xi, 101, 181
Korean war and retirement of, 251–52
Madison Square Garden speech of, 200–202, 204
removed from 1944 ticket of, 138–40, 142–43
as third-party candidate, 220–22, 234, 251, 323
Truman Doctrine opposed by, 207–8
Truman’s firing of, 202–5
Wall Street, xxxii, 7, 41, 55, 64, 73, 112, 122, 138, 184, 197, 231, 290, 426, 545–46, 547
under Obama, 550–54, 556–58, 560
opposition to, xxi, 48
rejection of gold standard and, 54
Wall Street Journal, xv, 34, 221–22, 256, 293, 343, 419, 432, 485, 493–94, 554, 567, 600
war crimes, G. W. Bush administration and, 499–500, 507, 511
War Department, U.S., 12, 19, 176, 177, 196, 199–200, 205
War Industries Board (WIB), 50
War Is a Racket (Butler), xxxi–xxxiii
Warnke, Paul, 404–5
War Powers Act of 1973, 472–73, 494
War Production Board, 122–23
War Relocation Authority (WRA), 154, 156
Warren, Earl, 151–52
Warren Commission, 323
war reparations, U.S.-German, 82
Warriors of Islam, 260
Warsaw, 111, 115, 157, 182
Warsaw Pact, 297, 298, 313, 469, 537
Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), 153
Washington, D.C., xix, 20, 121, 242, 335
antiwar protests in, 369, 370
Washington, George, xxvii, 94, 289
Washington Evening Star, 19
Washington Post, 9–10, 16, 19, 64, 68, 69–71, 77, 108, 126, 148, 182, 191, 192, 195, 225, 249, 262, 272, 278, 284, 300, 338, 370, 385, 418–19, 423, 435, 464, 472, 476, 500, 504, 506, 510, 520, 530–31, 532, 539, 553, 556–57, 559, 564–65, 566, 567, 570, 575, 578, 588, 589, 591, 598, 611
waterboarding, xxvii, 508–10, 511
Watergate scandal, 387, 389–90, 401, 494
Watson, Thomas, 78–79
wealth inequities, global, 546–47
weapons of mass destruction (WMD), 482
Webster, William, 461, 475
Weekly Standard, xv, 503
Weinberger, Caspar, 442–43, 457–59, 466
Weiner, Tim, 213, 263, 279, 542
welfare state, 400–401
Wells, H. G., 23, 30, 132, 133
Werth, Alexander, 127–28, 172
West Berlin, 356
Western Defense Command, 156
Westmoreland, William, 340–41
West Point, 459, 586, 599
West Virginia, Knights of the White Camelia in, 53
Wheeler, Burton, 93–94
Wheeler, Earle, 330, 333–34
White, John Campbell, 38–39
White House Office of Faith-Based Community Initiatives, 495
White House Special Investigations Unit (“Plumbers”), 386
Whitman, Walt, xviii, 43, 367
Whitney, George, 36, 73
WikiLeaks, 26, 459, 562–64, 569, 576, 583, 613
Will, George, 480, 514
Willkie, Wendell, 90, 93, 108
Wilson, Charles E., 122–23
Wilson, Edmund, 56, 60
Wilson, Harold, 329, 340
Wilson, Woodrow, xiv, 1–3, 5–6, 17, 26, 28–30, 28, 29, 36, 39–40, 73–76, 103, 253, 354, 355, 392
declaration of war by, 7–8, 29, 75, 97, 98
failures of, 43–44
Fourteen Points of, 27, 30–33, 34, 98, 464
League of Nations and, 30, 32, 35–36, 37, 44
Mexico policy of, 2–3
at Paris Peace Conference, 30–35, 34, 44
“peace without victory” speech of, 6, 31
“world safe for democracy” speech of, 7, 31